Trump's executive order on refugees, his endless petty feuds - with allies, with judges, with Arnold Schwarzenegger - his constant stream of up-is-down and down-is-up fabrications is outrageous.
Arianna Huffington
JudgesPettyStreamRefugeesOrder
My dad was a laborer. And he used to get up at 5:30 every morning. He worked for 50 years of his life, in all weathers for, by showbiz standards, petty cash. I remind myself of that when I feel a little bit spoiled or hard done by.
Ricky Gervais
LifeMorningMyselfFeelDonePetty
My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he was a man of his times.
Hillary Clinton
FatherFootballManNavyPettyHe
Divorce is a 50-50 thing, and it can be a number of petty things that finally drive you out of your mind.
Lee Radziwill
MindDriveDivorceYouPettyOut
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
Zhuangzi
WisdomGreatSmallSpeechPetty
When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.
Pat Buchanan
BlackPettySeizePoliticiansOut
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
Dan Ariely
PeopleSmallBehaviorCheatingPetty
The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
John Burroughs
RedGuiltySquirrelPettyMoreGray
Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
Steven Biko
EvilNothingPettyRightDecide
My favorite record of all time is Tom Petty's 'Wildflowers.' I hold it as the standard - in terms of sonics, sequencing, and songs. It shows that making a complete record is important, rather than just making a single.
Chris Stapleton
TimeImportantPettySingleHold
The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
Anton Chekhov
WorldPettyHatredFiresHostility
I think that the work that Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did was truly extraordinary, and that's their legacy. Not the other petty stuff.
Ryan Murphy
WorkLegacyThinkPettyStuffDid
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
Graham Greene
TruthTryingDistanceWhyTryPetty
We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness.
Katherine Harris
WomenEffortMeAttentionPettyPay
Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same.
Xun Kuang
ManGentlemanLovedPettyCapable
Petty laws breed great crimes.
Ouida
GreatPettyLawsCrimesBreed
The Hindu marriage may be described as the union of two families. In this union, there is no room for petty ambitions and personal ego-trips. What is involved is love for the entire family that one is marrying into.
Dada Vaswani
FamilyLoveMarriagePersonalPetty
What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.
Jerome Charyn
CuriousPovertyFindLandPettyUp
The me you see on stage is largely a construct, based on me at my worst, my most annoying, my most petty, and my most patronizing.
Stewart Lee
MeYouWorstPettyStageSee
I used to spend my money on going to Tom Petty concerts.
MoneyPettyUsedGoingConcertsTom
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Pierre Corneille
NatureQualityWomanGamePetty
I've found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.
Marilyn Monroe
MenPettyThingsFoundAnnoyLess
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
Emil Cioran
ParadisePettyRepublicLawsTyrant
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
George Carlin
PetSweatPettyThingsSweaty
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